Chapter 14 Vocab
Chapter 15 Vocab
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100
Any preserved evidence of an organism.
What is fossil?
100
The idea that the most fit for the environment will survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection
100
Marks the end of an era
What is mass extinction
100
Name of the type of adaptation California king snake and Western coral snake
What is mimicry
100
Name the type of mutation ATTCGC ATTCG
What is a deletion.
200
The decay of radioactive isotopes to measure the age of a rock.
What is radiometric dating?
200
cumulative changes in groups of organisms through time.
What is evolution.
200
Era we are in now
What is Cenozoic era
200
Type of sturcture: eagle wing and a beetle wing
What is an analogous stucture
200
Name the mutation: AATTGCGC AATTTGCGC
What is an insertion
300
Method used to determine the age of rocks by comparing them to those in other layers.
What is relative dating?
300
Anatomically similar structures inherited from a common ancestor.
What is homologous structure.
300
Period we are in now
What is Quaternary period
300
name the structure: human arm, horse leg, and cat leg
What is homologous structure.
300
Name all the different type of structures
What is homologous, analogous, and vestigial.
400
Idea that life rises from non life
What is spontaneous generation
400
traits that appear in newly evolved species and are not found in common ancestors.
What is Derived traits
400
Eon we are in now
What is Phanerozoic eon
400
name the structure: snake pelvis, human appendix, kiwi wing
What is vestigial structures
400
A pairs with T and G pairs with C
What is chargaffs rule
500
When allelic frequencies remain constant, a population is in genetic equilibrium.
What is Hardy-Weinberg principle
500
Epoch we are in now
What is Holocene epoch
500
Charles Darwin studied these animals:
What is tortoise and finches
500
what displays a heterozygous recessive.
What is hh or two lower case letters.
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